Support for clothes-lines and hammocks.



N. v. nunLEY. SUPPORT FOR CLOTHES LINES AND HAMMOCKS.

APPLICATION EILED FEB. 2T. l9l5. L

1,1 59,1 92, Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

N Vad/gn N. V. DUDLEY.

SUPPORT FOR CLOTHES LINES AND HAMMOCKS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 27. I9I5.

1 1 59, 1 92, Patented Nov.' 2, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NORMAN V. DUDLEY, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTUN.

SUPPORT FOR CLOTHES-LINES AND HAMMOCKS.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

Application led February 27, 1915. Serial No. 10,980.

`.Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports forClothes- Lines and Hammocks; and I do hereby de clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a combined clothes line and hammock support, and the primary object is to provide a support which may be quickly and easily put up or taken down when desired.

Another object of this invention is to provide a support wherein a pair .of bars are hingedly connected for positioning at ac ute angles to each other for forming supporting legs, and to construct hooks upon both ends of the hinge pins which are adapted for supporting a hammock, or clothes line attaching bars, and a bracing rod or member.

A still further object of this invention 1s to provide a pair of bars having a plurality of eyes secured to opposite faces thereof, which are provided for supporting a clothes line and are attachable to one of the hooks formed upon one end of the hinge pin.

With the foregoing and other objects in view this invention consists in such novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters designate like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved support showing a hammock suspended therebetween. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the improved support showing a clothes line supported thereby. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view'of the hinge used for connecting the inclined supporting leg of the support.

Referring more particularly to the drawings. 1 and 2 designate standards of the supporting structure, which are formed of a pair of b ars 3 and 4 which arehingedly connected at their upper ends as is clearly shown at 5 in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.

The hinges 6 which are used for hingedly connecting the bars 3 and 4 have leaves 7 and 8 which are constructed in the ordinary manner having interlocking sleeves 9 formed upon their meeting ends through which sleeve is inserted a pin 10. The hinge pin l0 has hooks l1 and 12 formed upon its ends, by the curving of the pin to assume a hook shape. The hook l1 is of smaller size than the hook 12. and is positioned outwardlyA from the edges of the bars 3 and 4.

The hooks 11 have secured thereto stay or bracing members 13, which may be either chains or rods, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The bracing or stay members 13 have pins 14 secured to their lower ends, which pins are adapted for insertion into pipe guideways 15 which are driven angularly into the ground as is clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The pins 14 and the stay or bracing members 11 securely brace and hold the standards 1 and 2 in vertical position.

The hooks 12 which are positioned inwardly of the facing sides of the standards 1 and 2 are shown connected in Fig. 1 by a flexible member 16 which further aid the bracing or stay members 13 in holding the standards in rigid vertical position. The flexible member 16 is used only when the device is utilized for supporting a hammock.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings, the hooks 12 arel shown as having suspended therefrom and between the standards 1 and 2'a hammock 17. The hammock 17 is connected to the hook 12 by the ordinary type of ham- -mock suspending rope 18.

In Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings the hooks 12 have connected thereto bars 20. The bars 2O are loosely connected to the hooks 12 by eye bolts 21 which. are secured to the side edges of the bars. The bars 20 have secured to the side edges to which the eye bolts 21 are secured eye bolts 22, to which are swivelly connected hooks 23. The hooks 23 are provided for having their hook ends 24 inserted through eyelets 25 which are carried by the side edges of the bars 2 and 3, for holding the bar 20 securely in a hori. zontal position. The hooks 23 cross each other and are connected to the bar 3 or 4 which is upon the opposite side of the hook 12 from the eye 22 to which the respective hook 23 is connected.

The bars 20 have secured to their side edge opposite to the one which carries the eye o on until the clothes line has been threaded through all of the eyes 27 and secured to the last eye for securely supporting the clothes line between the upright braces 1 and 2.

ln' reducing the invention to practice certain minor features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts may necessitate alterations to which the patentee is ,entitled provided such alterations are comprehended Within the scope of what is claimed.

What is claimed is :-v

1. In a device as set forth, a pair of vertical upri'ghts each comprising a pair of bars, hinge leaves secured to the inner sides of the upper ends of said bars, a hinge pin connecting said hinge leaves and extending ing av pair of bars, hinge leaves secured to l the upper ends of said'bars, a hinge pin connegting said hinge leaves, said hinge pin projecting` beyond the side edges of said hinge leaves and having its ends curved to form supporting hooks which extend cute Wardly from the outer and inner sides oi -said side edges of said bars, stay members nsecured to the outwardly extending hinge pin supporting' hook, pins for detachably securing said stay members to the ground, said inwardly extending hinge pin hooks being provided for supporting the article to be supported between said standards.

In testimonyowhereof l aflix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

NORMAN V. DUDLEY. Witnesses:

1E. W. HOWELL, B. KRAKENBERGER. 

